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 valve for bubbling emotions. Varied in character as the stories may be, each is permeated by the truest, purest joy in the telling—be it the classical story of the "Wooden Horse" and the "Fall of Troy," or the nursery tale of the "Little Small Rid Hin" and the fall of "Reynard the Fox."

Thus may we win the hearts and the confidence of the children, and having won these, we may lead them whithersoever we will. And so, with Kate Douglas Wiggin, I can truly say: "I would rather be the children's story-teller than the queen's favorite or the king's counsellor."